June 8, 2022 Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: The only honorable thing to do at this point for the Southern Baptist Convention is to bury it. Have a funeral. No, really. Have an actual funeral with songs of lament,…
Letter to the Editor: SBC should not repeat the mistake of the 1997 Disney boycott
June 7, 2022 Letter to the Editor Dear Editor: As a Southern Baptist minister for 40-plus years, I have been privileged to align myself with the beliefs, doctrines and cultural mandates for all Southern Baptists and Christians living in today’s…
Letter to the Editor: Where are the repentant SBC leaders?
Letter to the Editor March 25, 2022 Dear Editor: Thank you for writing an open article that appears to be uninfluenced and uncontrolled by those in the center of the spotlight of this (SBC) controversy. The Guidepost independent report and…
Letter to the Editor: A response to Laura Ellis on abortion and Christian Realism
Letter to the Editor May 17, 2022 Dear Editor: We all have a right to be wrong. Laura Ellis’s article, “Why I am a Pro-Choice Christian and Believe You Should Be Too” — while carefully constructed — simply fails basic…
Letter to the Editor: Wingfield is wrong on ‘performative Christianity’
Letter to the Editor May 11, 2022 Dear Editor: Mark Wingfield’s recent editorial on “performative Christianity” and religious liberty was both devoid of nuance and ill-informed of history. The “religious liberty” he advocates is no liberty at all, but the…
Letter to the Editor: Two facts evangelical Christians need to consider in potential sexual orientation laws
Letter to the Editor April 29, 2022 Dear Editor: As state legislatures across the nation consider — and adopt — new laws targeting members of the LGBTQ community, there are two inconvenient truths evangelical Christians ought to consider: First, the…
Letter to the editor: Evangelicals — save an unborn baby or save a soul?
Letter to the Editor April 7, 2022 Dear Editor: Evangelicals are going to have a lot of explaining to do when we meet the Heavenly Father. We have gotten so entangled in the anti-abortion movement, and subsequently in the Republican…
Letter to the Editor: Advice from Roger Williams
Letter to the Editor March 15, 2022 Dear Editor: WOW! I had never heard of Voddie Baucham until I read about him this past week on BNG. This guy is nothing more than a sociopath. He needs to stay where…
Letter to the Editor: A response from Oklahoma Senator Rob Standridge
Letter to the Editor February 15, 2022 Dear Editor: Per your article on Feb. 7, 2022, I was smeared for filing bills trying to protect the religious freedom of religious and Christian citizens in Oklahoma. Although I did remove the religious…
Letter to the editor: The value of unlaundered history
Letter to the Editor February 7, 2022 Dear Editor: Like many who are attempting to observe and interpret the social upheaval that is so constantly oppressing all of us, it occurs to me that perhaps we need a new metaphor…